Item Summary

Treatise in verse on Shiʻite law.

Descriptive Information

Title
منظومة بحر العلوم.
Transliterated Title
Manẓūmat Baḥr al-ʻUlūm.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 881
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/2227ms28p
Publisher
[1896]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1896
Format
Manuscript
Extent
101 leaves : paper ; 173 x 107 (120 x 64) mm bound to 177 x 111 mm
Provenance
On leaves 2a, 101b, note and stamp by Ḍiyāʼ al-Islām dated 1334 H [1915 or 1916].
References
Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), no. 156
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 505 (6: no. 2) = SII, 581(10)
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from leaf 2a.
Physical description: 12 lines per page, in two columns; written in small naskh in black on machine-made paper. Rubrication and catchwords.
Origin: Shaʻbān 1313 H [January-February 1896] (leaf 99b).
Incipit: افتتح المقال بعد البسملة * بحمد خير منعم والشكر له
Binding Note
Full green leather with blind-stamped fillets; peach paper doublures.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islamic law—Early works to 1800
Shīʻah—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
108

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/9fe9cfb3-24f8-4cfa-b029-bb5102ad1766/manifest